Four major turning points around ages nine, 32, 66 and 83 create five broad eras of neural wiring over the average human lifespan.

A Japanese research team has successfully reproduced the human neural circuit in vitro using multi-region miniature organs ...

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain is ...

Explore 10 interesting human brain facts, its structure, functions, and importance to learning, memory, behaviour, and exam ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, ...

Brain volume and function are altered in individuals with opioid use disorder, a new Yale study finds. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), researchers observed the ...

The University of Minnesota Medical School received a $16 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Brain Research Through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies ® (BRAIN) Initiative ...

For many heartbreaking diseases of the brain — dementia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and others — doctors can only treat the symptoms. Medical science does not have a cure. Why? Because it’s difficult to ...

Regrowing the human brain is no longer science fiction. Johns Hopkins engineer Annie Kathuria discusses her TEDx vision for ...